After a seven-month investigation into the culture of the Dallas Mavericks stemming from a Sports Illustrated article documenting a toxic workplace culture within the organization, owner Mark Cuban agreed to donate $10 million to women’s groups, and the NBA has created a series of workplace mandates Dallas must follow moving forward.

Those punishments were announced Wednesday afternoon, in concert with the release of a 43-page report from the investigation by former Manhattan district attorney Evan Krutoy and former New Jersey attorney general Anne Milgram. That investigation included 215 interviews with current and former Mavericks employees who worked for the team during the past two decades and from the evaluation of more than 1.6 million documents, including emails and other electronic documents.

The first sentence of the report’s conclusions summed up its findings — and corroborated Sports Illustrated’s initial reporting. which included exposing rampant sexual harassment allegations against former team president and CEO Terdema Ussery and two domestic violence incidents involving former team website writer Earl K. Sneed

“This investigation has substantiated numerous instances of sexual harassment and other improper workplace conduct within the Mavericks organization over a period spanning almost twenty years,” the report said.

In the wake of the report, Cuban agreed to pay the $10 million — which was four times the amount ($2.5 million) the NBA is able to fine someone under its constitution and by-laws — to “organizations that are committed to supporting the leadership and development of women in the sports industry and combating domestic violence.” Those organizations will be selected by a committee of several members — including Cuban, team CEO Cynthia Marshall and Kathy Behrens, the NBA’s President of Social Responsibility and Player Programs.

In addition, the Mavericks will have to give the NBA’s league office quarterly reports on its progress toward meeting and implementing the recommendations included in the report. They include: immediately reporting to the league office any instances or allegations of significant misconduct by any employee; continually enhancing and updating annual “Respect in the Workplace” training for all staff, including ownership; and implementing a program to train all staff, including ownership, on issues related to domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual harassment.

“I want to deal with this issue,” Cuban told Sports Illustrated when the initial story was published. “I mean, this is, obviously there’s a problem in the Mavericks organization and we’ve got to fix it. That’s it. And we’re going to take every step. It’s not something we tolerate. I don’t want it. It’s not something that’s acceptable.

“I’m embarrassed, to be honest with you, that it happened under my ownership, and it needs to be fixed. Period. End of story.”

In addition to the investigation, part of Cuban’s attempt to fix the problem was hiring Marshall as the team’s CEO.

During an introductory news conference in late February, just a few days after the Sports Illustrated article was published, Marshall said her mission was to turn the way the Mavericks responded to this crisis into a positive example for how corporations should repair their culture in the wake of such allegations.

“I really want to see us as a model of how to respond to this,” said Marshall, the former chief diversity officer and vice president of human resources at AT&T. “This is going on all around the country. I want us to be a model.”

NBA Commissioner Adam Silver said the investigation would be wrapped up by Aug. 1 during his annual news conference following the conclusion of the league’s summer Board of Governors meetings in Las Vegas in July, but it wound up taking nearly an extra two months to complete the investigation into the nearly two decades Cuban has owned the franchise.

The Sports Illustrated story detailed more than a decade of abuses by authority figures within the Mavericks. The article alleged Ussery, who served as team president from 2000 through 2015, had a host of offenses, including repeatedly asking another to have sex with him and promising he’d leave his wife if she did.

It also detailed the way the Mavericks handled multiple domestic assault allegations against Sneed, a writer who worked for the Mavericks website until he was dismissed shortly before the article was published. One of those assault allegations involved another Mavericks employee. In a statement issued before the story came out, Dallas said Sneed — who was only referred to as “an employee” — had “misled the organization about a prior domestic violence incident.”

The Mavericks also fired Buddy Pittman, the team’s human resources director. The article said Pittman made clear his social and religious beliefs, and that made it difficult for him to be approached, according to both male and female employees.

The fallout from the report has only just begun. But it comes as little surprise that Dallas had no draft picks stripped from it as part of the punishment, or any other basketball-related discipline. The NBA has never levied basketball punishments for non-basketball offenses. It was always unlikely in this instance.

It was also unlikely for Cuban to be placed in a position such as that of former Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling, who was forced to sell his team in the wake of racist recordings being released. As long as there were no direct allegations against Cuban that could be corroborated — though Cuban was investigated previously, and not charged, after an alleged sexual assault in Oregon in 2011 — the expectation has been Cuban would be hit with some lesser punishment instead. That included the $2.5 million fine — the maximum amount Silver is allowed to levy, per the league’s bylaws and constitution — and a suspension.

Given the league has been navigating through entirely uncharted waters from the moment Sports Illustrated’s story was released, the punishments levied toward the Mavericks will now serve as the baseline for how the league handles these situations going forward.

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